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Out with the new old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... Well ok, events beyond its control and economic fortunes have been changing at the speed of light ever since the first sub-prime borrower handed over his keys to the bank. But have economic and financial conditions stood still now, that this new forecast ...

Joint Committee has consumer loans in its sights

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... committee announced that it would inquire into issues related to the collapse of financial services providers such as Opes Prime and Storm Financial. The review, which is due to report in November, will have particular reference to the role of advisers ...

Best of the best at Securitor

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
From rising stars to the top performing financial planning practices, Securitor has picked the cream of the crop for this year's awards ceremony held at the Securitor conference in Darwin. The Securitor practice of the year award was handed out to Primewealth ...

Cutting SG a disaster: Keating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... be lowered, even just temporarily to help stimulate the economy, would be an economic disaster, warned former Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating. At the end of last year, a group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the Lateral Economics ...

Charged for no AFSL

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... potential investments. During the relevant period Button was a director of Button Building Consultants Pty Ltd (now known as Prime Research & Marketing Pty Ltd); Shepherd was the sole director and officer of Pinnacle Enterprises International Pty Ltd ...

The good news in good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... 'asked' its state-owned banks to meet its target of at least 5 trillion yuan in new lending this year. According to Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, China's real economy is also improving. Industrial production rose by 8.3 per cent in the year to March ...

UPDATE: Prime Super drops $14m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
The $872 million Prime Super has reduced its property mandate with Lend Lease, holding on to a $20 million mandate while withdrawing $14 million to find other investment opportunities. "Prime Super has considered selling secondary units from Lend Lease's ...

GFC Problem solved

... institutions and credit-raters and limits to executive renumeration, among others. In highlighting their achievement, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared that, 'This is the day the world came together to fight back against the global recession, not ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... average reversed early gains to fall 126.55 points, or 1.54 per cent, to 8,109.53. There is mounting expectation that Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso will unveil a new stimulus package, on top of about Y12 trillion ($A181.04 billion) in public spending ...

We are the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
'Can I just add my voice to this. I think the prime minister is incredibly, is A-plus on these issues. If we did what he advises, we'll all be in a better place.' Malcolm, eat your heart out. This was US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner patting the ...